1858 -- US: Leschi, chief of the Nisqually & Yakama, is hanged for leading attack on Seattle, Washington territory.

Native American Leschi hanged for his role in the Indian Wars of 1855-56. His belief that reservations were the first step to annihilation led him to encourage an uprising by Coastal tribes in the Puget Sound region surrounding Seattle. See Della Gould Emmons sympathetic novelization, Leschi of the Nisquallies (Dennison, 1965).

1903 -- Kay Boyle lives, St. Paul, Minnesota. Novelist, short story writer, anti-war activist. Journalist for The New Yorker in the 1940s documenting the fall of France. Founder of the San Francisco chapter of Amnesty International in the 1980s. Imprisoned for protesting the Vietnam War. Wrote Plagued by Nightingales.

Loved Dubonnet, Paul Robeson, razor clams, & sang "Miss Otis Regrets" like no one else. In Paris in the 20's, NY in the 40's & in jail in the 60's. Close friends included James Joyce, Man Ray, Picasso, Joan Baez, & Katherine Anne Porter. S. I. Hayakawa labeled her the most dangerous woman in America.

The next morning, however, the women are out in full force, only to be beaten so badly that the Italian woman who spoke at the meeting & Bertha Crouse, another pregnant striker, lose their babies & almost die.

In the midst of the 1936 revolution, she met the French surrealist poet Benjamin Péret, who was a Trotskyist volunteer in the anarchist militia. Moved to Paris with him & active in the Paris Surrealist Group from 1937 to 1942, when the Nazi occupation forced her & Péret to emigrate to Mexico.

Active in the US, England, & Argentina, Creaghe collaborated on Regeneracion, among many other journals, & participated in the Mexican Revolution.

Joint founder, with Fred Charles, of The Sheffield Anarchist. He took part in the "no rent" agitation before leaving Sheffield in 1891. He went on to become the founding editor in Argentina of the anarchist paper, El Oprimido (1893-97), which was one of the first to support the 'organisers' current (as opposed to refusing to organise large scale organisations). [El Oprimido became La Protesta Humana (1897-1903), & then the hugely influential La Protesta (1903 to the present day).]

1933 -- The Second International calls for Common Front against fascism.

1937 -- England: Emma Goldman & writer/novelist Ethel Mannin speak on "The Relation of the Church in Spain with Fascism," at Friends House, London, under the joint auspices of the C.N.T.-FAI London Committee & the ILP.

1942 -- US: 120,000 Americans sent to concentrations camps in the "Land of the Free."

With the strong support of California Attorney General Earl Warren (later supreme Court Justice), liberal journalist Walter Lippmann & Time Magazine — which referred to California as "Japan's Sudetenland" — Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Franklin Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066, authorizing the Secretary of War & military commanders "to prescribe military areas...from which any or all persons may be excluded." The order set the stage for the forced relocation of Americans of Japanese descent to concentration camps; they lose businesses, homes, & belongings to whites who take advantage of their plight.

"If the workers of the world want to win, all they have to do is recognize their own solidarity. They have nothing to do but fold their arms & the world will stop. The workers are more powerful with their hands in their pockets than all the property of the capitalists. As long as the workers keep their hands in their pockets, the capitalists cannot put theirs there. With passive resistance, with the workers absolutely refusing to move, lying absolutely silent, they are more powerful than all the weapons & instruments that the other side has for attack."

Let us drink a new toast to the dear Woolen trust,
To the legions of "Country & God,"
To the great Christian cause & the wise, noble laws,
& to all who cry out for our blood;
Let us drink to the health of the old Commonwealth,
To the Bible & code in one breath,
& let's so propitiate both the church & the state
That they'll grant us a cheerful, quick death.

— Arturo Giovannitti, excerpt from a poem written in Salem jail, 1912, "TO JOSEPH J. ETTOR", On His 27th Birthday.

1951 -- André Gide, 81, dies in Paris. A telegram with Gide's signature appears on a bulletin board in a hall of the Sorbonne a few days later: "Hell doesn't exist. Better notify Claudel." Paul Claudel, the Catholic mystic poet, had once unsuccessfully tried to convert him.

1964 -- UK flies one ton of Beatle wigs to US. The American Bald Eagle is no more.

1964 -- France: Five Spanish libertarians begin a hunger strike at the infamous Fresnes prison to draw attention to their plight. Still imprisoned (out of 21 originally arrested in September 1963), they are all released a few days from now.

Their release coincides with anti-Francoist campaign organized by the indefatigable Louis Lecoin, an old hand in solidarity campaigns.

1965 -- US: Weekend of protests in 30 cities against escalation of war in Vietnam. Today 14 Vietnam War protesters arrested for blocking U.N. doors in New York.

1976 -- One-time Tower of Power lead singer Rich Stevens charged in the murders the previous night of three men in San Jose, California. Police believe the reason was drugs. Stevens is later convicted.

1976 -- US: Four recruits die at Fort Dix of a new flu virus which is a hybrid of Asian flu with one that causes flu-like illness in pigs ("swine flu"). Worries about an epidemic similar to the 1918-19 swine flu epidemic which affected 500,000 Americans. Big vaccination campaign started.

1977 -- Germany: 40,000 demonstrate against nuclear power, Brokdorf.

1980 -- Bon Scott, 33, lead singer of heavy metal band AC/DC, dies, choking on his own vomit after an all-night drinking binge in London — just months after the bands' first big American hit album, "Highway To Hell."

I was with some Vietnamese recently, & some of them were smoking two cigarettes at a time. That's the kind of customers we need!

— US Senator Jesse Helms, on his meeting with the Vietnamese ambassador designate at a dinner given by the R J Reynolds Company

1986 -- US: Senate finally ratifies 1948 UN treaty outlawing genocide (90 other nations have already ratified). Between 1991-2000, 1,500 children under the age of five die in Iraq each month due to US-imposed economic embargo of Iraq, according to the UN. (This is rather loud):http://mf.streamlinesocial.com/taxonomy/term/91

1988 -- Passaic County Prosecutor's Office files motion to dismiss the 1966 indictments against Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, championed in the song Hurricane by Bob Dylan.

1998 -- US: About 300 Ohio State University students interrupt a CNN infomercial for the Clinton Administration's planned military strike on Iraq, both heckling White House representatives & peppering them with tough (& unanswered) questions. The PR debacle, broadcast live globally, galvanized anti-war efforts & may have single-handedly stopped the attacks.

Combining left & libertarian politics with a kind of post-political futurism & the love of a good laugh, Chairman Sirius intends to bring all the subcultural tribes together to wrest control of the world from the drug warriors, the cultural ayatollahs, & the various corporate mega-destructo gangs. This is common sense for the forgotten ones who comprise most of the population.

MORIARTY: Right in it — you see, the united anti-socialist neo-democratic pro-fascist communist party are fighting to overthrow the unilateral democratic united partisan bellicose pacifist cobelligerent tory labour liberal party.